As a first suggestion for you to mull over (further), although the ability to address drives of more than 32MB arrived with System 4.1, coping with more than 2GB came only with System 7, and, specifically, 4GB to 2TB with System 7.5.2.
You could test (pain, I know) your hypothesis by making, say, a 100MB partition on your iBook HDD, and addressing that 'volume' only from the SE. The only potential alternative is to mount the SE's drive on the iBook's desktop, and copy from the SE as server to the iBook as client. How to visualize the SE as server on the iBook I leave to you to manage, but you have at least the ethernet connection available, whereas serial (LocalTalk) is not going to be a goer.
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You could test (pain, I know) your hypothesis by making, say, a 100MB partition on your iBook HDD, and addressing that 'volume' only from the SE. The only potential alternative is to mount the SE's drive on the iBook's desktop, and copy from the SE as server to the iBook as client. How to visualize the SE as server on the iBook I leave to you to manage, but you have at least the ethernet connection available, whereas serial (LocalTalk) is not going to be a goer.
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